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**soyclocky** · 06-06-2010, 04:25 PM

I wonder if the the age on taking up the a martial discipline makes a difference? Ones character is more malleable at a younger age and you are less entrenched in ones attitudes and beliefs so the ideas behind Kendo, Karate-do Iaido etc can exert a more profound influence. Also, I don't know what I would've been like without the Budo since I started at an early age. Who knows, I may have been the same person without its influence, but I doubt it. The knowledge, instruction and reading I've gathered from the Budo and associated Japanese arts have made me a much more rounded person.

When I saw my daughter and other children, I could see your point.
In the other hand sometimes Japanese parents say too much about what children suppose to do at doji. They think that is "shituke or reigi". If the children weren't well‐mannered, someone should teach them, although someone attach great importance to propriety themselves, not just yell children.
I think kendo children learn patience more than their parents including me.

06-06-2010, 04:25 PM	#18
soyclocky Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 371 Senior Member	I wonder if the the age on taking up the a martial discipline makes a difference? Ones character is more malleable at a younger age and you are less entrenched in ones attitudes and beliefs so the ideas behind Kendo, Karate-do Iaido etc can exert a more profound influence. Also, I don't know what I would've been like without the Budo since I started at an early age. Who knows, I may have been the same person without its influence, but I doubt it. The knowledge, instruction and reading I've gathered from the Budo and associated Japanese arts have made me a much more rounded person. When I saw my daughter and other children, I could see your point. In the other hand sometimes Japanese parents say too much about what children suppose to do at doji. They think that is "shituke or reigi". If the children weren't well‐mannered, someone should teach them, although someone attach great importance to propriety themselves, not just yell children. I think kendo children learn patience more than their parents including me.
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